Disney would cut the ACC off at the knees if it tried that. They already have their prize in the SEC. I think the Big 12 did the best job of hedging its bet of all the conferences. They have a relatively short term deal but still are solidly in 3rd place revenue-wise, and that's without including the Tier 3 rights of Oklahoma and Texas (so in total, they might be on par with or even ahead of the SEC). From the article I attached below- "Every school in the Big 12 makes more off its third-tier deal than each school in the Pac-12 makes off the league owned-and-operated Pac-12 Network." The Big 12 teams have their main TV deals, but the conference also allows teams to have their own side deals. So if Big 12 teams acknowledge the fact that cable TV is dying and online streaming is the future, they are in good position to take advantage of it. This is a good article about where the money is going to be in the coming years:
As cable channels like ESPN lose subscribers, college football conferences will likely need new platforms like Google and Amazon to keep their revenue for broadcast rights growing.
www.si.com
Of note- the conference in the one of the worst positions for the future is the ACC. They locked themselves into a deal with ESPN until 2036.
@hotshot If I was coming up with the 10 year business plan for Miami football, it would involve
1) exiting the ACC for the Big 12
2) Getting together with the other interested teams and maybe some independents (BYU, Army, Liberty, UCONN, New Mex State, UMass, basically all of them but ND) to sign a deal with the major streaming services (Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu) for Tier 3 rights.